Not-quilts are similar to quilts, but more free-form.
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. I have sewn on a lot of the interstitial pieces. Adding plenty of solid green filler should allow me to eke out the green […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. When you’re making a NotQuilt using only the fabric you have in the house, you may reach a point where it’s time to bust […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. Quilt design on the fly can be fraught with peril, as we’ll see this week. I’ve sewed down the remaining pieces of cat fabric, […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. At this point, I have only a few pinned pieces of fabric left to sew down and then I move on to sewing down […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. Now that the back has been put on, I’m turning my attention to resewing the front of the cat comforter. Most of the fabric […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. So here we are again, me and the cat comforter that is being converted into a NotQuilt. This week, we’re moving from the finishing […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. So we meet again. I’ve been sick and that has delayed finishing the quilt backing. I sewed on the Pennsylvania Dutch fabric. I searched […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The link below takes you to the Cat Notquilt project. More time has passed. I’ve sewn all the way around the comforter, about 2 or 3 inches in. I’ve unpicked the remaining offending patches. […]
The first step in the process is preparing the notquilt comforter. I dug through the stash and discovered some fabric with chickens on it, some fabric that looks like appliquéd quilt blocks, and some more fabric with Pennsylvania Dutch birds. All of these fabrics share similar themes, blah colors, are intensely country in style and, […]
This is the current NotQuilt project. The guts are an old comforter, very old. I have no idea where it came from. It’s for a queen-size bed. As with all NotQuilts, the size of the finished product is determined by the size of the filling. This one is being worked in a roundabout, bassackward fashion, […]